Does anyone here remember or know of the full story to an ultra modern home that had to have been built in the 1960s on the far Northwest side of Chicago? I remember it as a child and our parents told us it was an all electric built home, with unique "flying buttresses" that came out the front, and was supposed to have been a "contest" awarded home that someone won. The loc
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I grew up with friends that were house music DJs in the Brickyard area on the far Northwest side during the late 1980s - early 1990s. The popular house music stores to get the popular tracks on 12" vinyl records and DJ produced mix tapes were Hip House at the Bricktown Square on Grand Avenue. A childhood friend named Brian Varga once worked there. He's a huge house DJ by the name of Halo V
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I'm not sure about the relation of the Abruzzi in Rosemont, but I will say that about 10 years ago or so, the same family owned a hot dog style restaurant that once was at the corner of Bronx & Dempster in Skokie. I walked in there just to try something different, and there were the same guys from the Grand Ave. restaurant behind the counter. I thought it was great because they even remember
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I remember watching old 1960s cartoons on Channel 44, including White Sox games in the 1970s. I recently sold this button from them on eBay. Thought I'd share the photo of it with everyone.
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I hope you don't mind me posting my childhood bowling alley that no one else mentioned. Hi-Spot Lanes at 6310 W. Grand Avenue, on the Northwest side. Building is still there, but it's a Mexican night club, I believe. I used to bowl here a lot in the 1980s with neighborhood friends, and then play the APB and Gauntlet video games they used to have here towards the back of the alley. Then we used
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I also wanted to mention that the photo in the Tribune article circa 1987, probably shows the back side view of JC Penny from the old Pauli's grocery store that sat on what is now Bricktown Square. It definitely is not the radar station. I remember as a kid Pauli's, Community, and Firestone (the 3 stores on that site) whent vacant and abandoned for years before being torn down and rebuilt as Bri
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I grew up at Narragansett & Grand in the 1970s and 1980s. I used to have the book Is There Only One Chicago that someone else referenced where the photo of the tower was in. I can't remember if this was published in the book, or if my father had told me (he trained at Fort Sheridan and then served in the Army during the Korean War), but I believe I remember learning there was a live communic
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